Robert Winder, formerly Literary Editor of The Independent

The Independent

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

 for five years and Deputy Editor of Granta

Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centers on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated, "In its blend of...

 magazine during the late 1990s, is the author of Hell for Leather, a book about modern cricket, a book about British immigration, and also two novels ("Biographical Notes" 73) as well as many articles and book reviews in British periodicals. He is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was the late Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...

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Publications

Fiction

• No Admission. Penguin Crime Fiction ser. Penguin Group (USA), 1990. (Paperback rpt.) ISBN 0140093249 (10) ISBN 978-0140093247 (13).
• The Marriage of Time and Convenience. Fontana Press, 1988. ISBN 0006175880 (10). ISBN 978-0006175889 (13).
• The Final Act of Mr. Shakespeare. Little, Brown, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4087-0206-2.

Non-fiction

• Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. Little, Brown, 2004. Abacus, 2005. ISBN 0349115664 (10). ISBN 9780349115665 (13).
• Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996. ISBN 0575060859 (10). ISBN 978-0575060852 (13).

Poetry

• "Two O'clock, Putney Heath in August" – Poem © Robert Winder. In "Literature of the Gaieties", haroldpinter.org.

Selected book reviews

• "A Dying Game". The New Statesman
  The New Statesman
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   19 June 2000. ("Why would a cricketer commit suicide? Robert Winder reads the lives of three great former players and is bewildered by their self-absorption and petty obsessions.")

Selected editorials for Granta

Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centers on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated, "In its blend of...

• Granta 58: Ambition. (Contents from the archive; Winder's "Editorial" is not available online.)

External links

• "Robert Winder" – Archive of articles by Robert Winder published in The Independent
  The Independent
  The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
  
   at FindArticles.com.
• "Robert Winder" – Archive of articles by Robert Winder published in The New Statesman
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• "Robert Winder" – Archive of articles by Robert Winder published in Prospect
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• "Robert Winder" – Meet the Author feature: Robert Winder on Bloody Foreigners (2004). (Audio file.)